plant milk
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manufactured, non-dairy beverage made from a plant extract for flavoring and aroma
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Within Vinony's link graph, plant milk is referenced by 757 other articles, and connects out to milk, Vegetarian and vegan symbolism and veganism.
It is catalogued under topics including Cold drinks, Food ingredients and Imitation foods.
Its subject is documented across 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Type
- Non-dairy beverage and ingredient
- Color
- White
- Flavor
- Various; creamy texture
- Ingredients
- Water and a grain, pseudocereal , legume , nut , seed, or coconut
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
8,766 papers- A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of substituting soymilk for cow's milk and intermediate cardiometabolic outcomes: understanding the impact of dairy alternatives in the transition to plant-based diets on cardiometabolic health.BMC medicine · 2024
- Cow's Milk Substitutes for Children: Nutritional Aspects of Milk from Different Mammalian Species, Special Formula and Plant-Based Beverages.Nutrients · 2019
- Characterization of Plant-Based Milk-Derived "Fujiharu Butter": Comparison With Butter and Butter-Like Substitutes.Journal of food science · 2026
- Plant-Based Drinks as an Alternative to Cow's Milk in Early Life: Health Effects in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence.Deutsches Arzteblatt international · 2026
- Consumption of plant sterols-enriched soy milk with a healthy dietary pattern diet lowers blood pressure in adults with metabolic syndrome: A randomized controlled trial.Nutrition, metabolism, and cardiovascular diseases : NMCD · 2025
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- non-alcoholic beverage
- Material used
- water
- Image
- Lac pegetabilе.jpg
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- Commons category
- Plant milk
- topic's main category
- Category:Plant milk
- facet of
- milk allergy
- natural product of taxon
- plant
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C178181
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Plant milk is a category of non-dairy beverages made from a water-based plant extract for flavoring and aroma. Nut milk is a subcategory made from nuts, while other plant milks may be created from grains, pseudocereals, legumes, seeds or endosperm. Plant-based milks are consumed as alternatives to dairy milk and provide similar qualities, such as a creamy mouthfeel, as well as a bland or palatable taste. Many are sweetened or flavored (e.g., vanilla).
As of 2026, there were about 20 different types of plant milks, of which almond, oat, soy, coconut and pea are the highest-selling worldwide. Production of plant milks—particularly soy, oat, and pea milks—can offer environmental advantages over animal milks in terms of greenhouse gas emissions and land and water use.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “plant milk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.